You laugh, you cry, you root for the characters – it’s what sets K-dramas apart from other types of shows and explains their lasting popularity, according to a leading Korean television critic.

Local content such as Indonesian series Nightmares and Daydreams has earned praise from viewers, as Netflix seeks new Asian growth markets.

Lee Do-hyun returns in Netflix K-drama Sweet Home season 3, Kim So-hyun and Chae Jong-hyeop share the screen in romance Serendipity’s Embrace, and Jang Na-ra plays a feared lawyer in Good Partner.

Claims include Meghan Markle wanting to be posher than Posh Spice, Anna Wintour advising Victoria Beckham to have her breast implants removed … and then there was David Beckham’s Nazi ‘T-shirt’

Sul Kyung-gu, Kim hee-ae and Im Se-mi star in Netflix’s new political Korean drama The Whirlwind, but bland scripting that sorely lacks fun and charisma overwhelms its better elements.

Cressida Cowper is the Regency-era Mean Girl we love to hate – but Madsen’s gaining attention for her LGBT pride and her fashion choices too

Hermès, Loewe, Miu Miu and other brands have jumped on the trend for personalising bags with charms and chains – after all, Jane Birkin herself did this back in the day

Chun Woo-hee and Song Joong-ki are considering roles in the Korean drama My Youth, while Jin Ki-joo has signed on to Undercover High School, and Kim Da-mi is in talks to lead A Hundred Memories.

One of the stars of Netflix series One Day, Leo Woodall talks about how it feels to suddenly have a horde of online fans, and being inspired to act after watching Peaky Blinders and Skins.

Netflix anime The Imaginary follows an imaginary friend (voiced by Kokoro Terada) trying to get back to his human companion Amanda (Rio Suzuki) in a story that is heavily inspired by the films of Studio Ghibli.

After adaptations on YouTube and Netflix helped Korean webtoons gain popularity worldwide, the biggest platform is looking to go public on the Nasdaq, which could help the industry grow even bigger.

Bridgerton’s third season includes a string quintet cover of All I Want, a song created for the series by a team who said their brief was to write something that could be played at a wedding.

The showrunner of Bridgerton’s season 1 and 2 previously worked on Shonda Rhimes’ Grey’s Anatomy, and has 3 daughters with his husband

Lee Jung-eun and Jung Eun-ji play the same character in this fantasy comedy that sees a woman grappling with a condition that has her magically flitting between her twenties and middle age.

The hit Netflix crime series returns as slick and polished as before, as we follow Joseph Chang’s detective with Asperger’s syndrome. However, the show is let down by convoluted storytelling.

David Mumeni was in the Tom Cruise flick Mission: Impossible – Fallout, Hannah New was in Maleficent with Angelina Jolie, while Sam Phillips had a role in The Crown

She’s starred in Emma alongside Gwyneth Paltrow, has a Golden Globe nomination, and is married to Laurence Penry-Jones … but will she ever appear on Celebrity Bake Off?

Mysteries of the Terracotta Warriors, a documentary on Netflix, delves into the construction and excavation of the vast mausoleum Qin Shi Huang, the country’s first emperor, ordered built to house his tomb.

South Korean actor Lee Je-hoon, best known for his role in K-drama Taxi Driver, endeared himself to viewers with his fearless approach to acting and his willingness to challenge himself in a variety of roles.

The daughter of The Crown and Harry Potter actress Imelda Staunton, and Downton Abbey’s Jim Carter, Carter once worried about the ‘nepo baby’ label ... but now acts with confidence

The US competitive eating legend will face off against a fierce rival from Japan in a hot-dog eating contest, in the latest event to be aired live on Netflix, but what else do we know about him?

Based on Lawrence Osborne’s 2014 novel of the same name, The Ballad of a Small Player stars Farrell as an English con man passing himself off as a lord as he stays holed up in Macau

Showing on Netflix, seven-episode series overseen by a director sometimes compared to Guillermo del Toro and Jordan Peele is far more than the set of self-contained creepy stories it at first appears to be.

Johnson once lived a double life as a philosophy teacher and fake hitman who helped the police with sting operations … his story has finally hit the silver screen, but how much of the film is true?

Do Da-hee (Chun Woo-hee) was saved from a fire in the past by a mystery man who died, who can only have been Bok Gwi-ju (Jang Ki-yong). We learn how he travelled back in time to save her – and there’s a twist.

Hierarchy appears to offer social commentary and a story about the breakdown of the social order at an elite high school, but delivers neither. Worse still, it is downright dull.

Netflix has been mining its viewing data for more than a decade. Knowing what its users want – from preferred genres to regional programmes – has helped it refine its winning recipe.

Expectations are high for the webtoon adaptation Dear X, and Netflix’s popular Bloodhounds series is set to return for season two. We are all ears for the latest K-drama casting talk.

A baseball star who returns to Japan and inherits the superman role adopts a baby monster in Ultraman fan Shannon Tindle’s playful debut feature film.